Late success in the manhunt: After an arson attack on the provincial headquarters of the Lower Austrian Freedom Party in St. Pölten three years ago, a second suspect is in custody. A DNA match led to the Iraqi. Shortly after the attack, an Afghan had been arrested.
A DNA match in the course of investigations into terrorist organization led to the man, according to the prosecutor’s office. A trial date has not yet been scheduled. “The investigation is still ongoing,” confirmed Leopold Bien of the St. Pölten prosecutor’s office.
The DNA match resulted already at the end of 2021, informed the spokesman of the prosecutor’s office. Age and nationality of the suspect were not disclosed on the part of the prosecution. According to the free newspaper ” Heute “, the suspect is a 29-year-old Iraqi. A suspected accomplice was sentenced to prison in 2020, two suspects could not be identified so far.
A total of four suspects allegedly committed an attack with throwing incendiary devices on the provincial headquarters of the Freedom Party of Lower Austria in the early morning hours of August 12, 2019. The crime had been recorded by a surveillance camera. Shortly after the attack, a 21-year-old Afghan was arrested after visiting a Vienna hospital for a burn injury. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison at the trial in 2020, which was not final, and a previously imposed prison sentence of seven months was also revoked.
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